Begin forwarded message: > From: Maruthu Pandian <haipandian79@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: 1 July 2005 11.25.27 GMT+05:30 > To: lis-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [LIS-Forum] Sponsorship for students on Indian languages > for Wikipedia > > > Hi, > > So far the Wikipedias in Indian languages have seen > very slow progress. These are among the lowest ratio > "number of articles / number of speakers". There a > number of technical and other reasons. > > Some people from the Wikimedia Foundation think that a > financial help may boost these languages. They are > willing to sponsor students who might contribute > writing articles in Indian languages on different > subjects for Wikipedia. > > Here is the URL for further reading. > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Promoting_the_Indian_languages_projects > > Here are some proposed rules: > * The articles should be written in Indian languages > from scratch or translated (probably from the English > Wikipedia). > * The articles should be encoded in Unicode. > * The articles sould be released under the GFDL > licence (free to edit and copy). > * The articles should be more than 500 words. > > Here are a list of articles: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have > This list should be completed with specific Indian > topics (Indian states and cities, personalities, > events, etc.). > > A proposition of a list of Indian subjects is welcome. > > For each language, at least two persons are needed to > review the quality of the articles (teachers, writers, > etc.). > > Please could you also transfer this message to people > who might be interested by this project ? > > Regards, > Maruthu Pandian.B > Pubsub Concepts Pvt Ltd. > > > > > __________________________________ > Discover Yahoo! > Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check > it out! > http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html > _______________________________________________ > LIS-Forum mailing list > LIS-Forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum > ---------------------------------------- | Free Software Users Group - CUSAT | | http://fsug-cusat.port5.com/ | ----------------------------------------